Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-02
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE TWO GREAT PARTIES A Sharp Contrast By Sena-
 tor Sherman. THE THISTLE WINS A RACE. A Democratic Scheme That
 Miscarried. BEN. PERLEY PO0RE BURIED. An Episcopal Cathedral
 For New York.

But the Reception to Senator Sher-
 man Was a Great Success-An Able
 Review of the Great Political Par
 ties
 SPRINGFIELD, H., June Bad weather interfered with the Sherman reception to-day ! and the outdoor demonstration was aban- doned. The speaking took. place this after ] noon in representative hall which was l crowded. Senator Sherman was introduced | by Governor Oglesby, and was received with much applause which was very freely be-
 slowed during the telling passages of his able
 address.
 | The address was on the principles and tendencies of the two great political parties | of the country. Beginning with the civil
 war MT. Sherman showed that it was the Republican party that guided the ship of | State through the perils and storms of re- bellion, marshalling armies, building navies, ! improvisipg currency the best that has ev- ! CT been devised, and laying the foundation | of public credit higher in the markets of | the world than that of any nation in our l own or ancienl times. The antithesis of all ! this was the Democratic party. Where Re publicanism built up, Democracy pulled 1 down; it leagued with Knights of the Gold ! en Circle, the mob rioters of New York, the ! bounty jumpers and shirks, and, next to ! the armed forces under General Lee, was | the most dangerous enemy of the republic during the fearful four years struggle of | our civil war. And when the eagles of vic | tory perched upon the banner of the North the Republican party set about for restora- tion of the rebel States to their old place in the Union with no conditions except such as would secure 8 faithful observance of the laws of the United States. It's first step was the adoption by the several States of the thirteenth amendment. The second step was to put an end 10 the doctrine of secession by the fourteenth amendment, as broad and liberal proposition in favor of human lib erty and human rights as ever was framed by man. A series of measures were then, from time to time, adopted by Congress, among which were the gradual repeal of internal taxes, the reduction of the public debt; 8 system of liberal pensions to Union soldiers, revision of the tariff laws carefully framed to continue the protection and encouragement of American industry. The Pacific railroad was built. The English government was compelled to make restitu- ton for the work of her cruisers. The inter- est of the debt was enormously reduced by the process of refunding and finally by the resumption of specie payments our currency was placed on the coin basis. This series of measures, solely the work of the Republican party, rapidly made good the waste of war and put the country upon the road of unex- ampled progress and prosperity.
 In what spirit was this met by the Democ racy? What language express the cruel and barbarous atrocity of the controlling ele- | ments of the South in their treatment of Re. | publicans, both white and black, and espe- ! cially of the freedmen who had been invested by constitutional amendments with liberty and political rights. Taking advantage of the detection of Andrew Jackson and his re- construction policy they commenced with laws that denied the freedmen liberty of speech and of the press, and even the person al freedom and protection allowed by the | laws of the most despotic powers in Europe | to the meanest serf, followed by wholesale | assassination of unarmed and undisciplined negroes inflicted by secret, organized and disguised bands, using ali the agencies of l terror and superstition that could affect the | mind of an ignorant and credulous ! people with such success that in | ten years after the war the \ freedmen of the South could not, as rule, | vote wherever their vote would change the result, they could hold no office, and might l be cheated and robbed and murdered with ! impunity. This intimidation was ill many | places, especially in the far South, extended | to white Republicans of character and intel | ligence among them some Confederate SOL | diers, who resisted as far as they could these atrocities and were branded with opprobri ous epithets, tabooed and ostracised and in ' some cases murdered. By such methods has | the Democracy succeeded in making MT. Cleveland President of the United States. MT. Sherman continued:
 vital difference between the two great parties is shown in their choice of officers and agents to conduct the government. The Republican party
 with patriotic pride M all 4a the and r G the war. Every measure for the benefit Of Unlon
 I he MorP of that Union soldiers in every rank and c9nditlon or H1e
 oe sate and nationa oces Can this be said of the Democratic party The controlling elements of that party look with prejudice upon Union sol,
 dierS and do not, with rare exceptions confer upon them place and power Ten rebel soldiers @ are ap-
 istration has emphasized this feeling in the most
 bg bs S S os the most distinguished leaders or the sent in the diplomatic and consular serVlce
 abroad are Confederats soldiers or civ,ans hoia
 ters, consuls secretaries of legation and the like
 lesser degree by service in the Confederate army or
 the NortS were in % sympathy with the rebellion I This is so marked that every, nation to
 conclude that it wal the rebel that triumphed and not the Union cause Nearly al! these are of
 them refused to ask to have his difabiites removed Another. g public holiday when the flag of our turned to it and said: How hate that flag, and ! yet when checked added: But would fight for it ! now The body of these men are more fitted to ! represent the Confederate States than the Union
 people have 5G o sh to in e yes of the war but do think it is shame that within
 cratic party in power should emphasize to all the
 world their sympathy with the Gonfederate ca cause; use shown gratitude to the Union army or satisfaction
 for the success of the Union cause or sympathy for ! ton of their country. His innumerabIe yetoes of
 private pension blls his indifference to the suffer,
 through the country do not indicate that feeling of
 rhsa es d rhe all cratic party though containing in its ranks many
 honorable and patriotic men IS not the reptesenta pT
 fessedly composed of the body of adherents to the
 rebel cause. reinforced by the element ne thought without questioning. the ne, memories and as
 prations of the Democratic party ana the scattered
 Eetims iife of disappointment 'ne''AD' po'l'ai
 mosties of the war. That was fought out manfu!ly ! and bravely by the two centending parties with
 such to te oher the and to
 logical conclusion of 9f that the as complete ?. fssf
 s of the Union % usonoaoy fu the
 of their surrender, and that the results of the var
 as and TT aRa S1 With charity
 by Union soldiers and o sodiera sas h
 prsjuace daappsar. both sides VII stand Py each | great and united country.
 With regard to the labor question MT. | Sherman said:
 The Republican party, embracing in it the great ! body Of the producers or Lno LHS Iy both by State and national legislation, adopted
 ereGe er conton to promote employment to
 regulate the hours of labor. to secure good wages
 adopt every just to 9peR9, their way t9 | comfort, wealth, and to all the advanced
 positions public and 4S.t PFvate Pdvatess life hss
 no Doyer to So any of these things It is unconsti-
 tutfonai The Democratic party has therefore op-
 many of the States especially where their strens
 aboring men There some things M that at laws laws | or anything else This only be done by the law
 of supply and demand American laborers do not not
 free and ready means of cont esting l1 with | capital for a fair division of the results 1 of production. We have no room in this
 country for anarchists. communists or soe,asts
 our workngmen want is an open field and fair air
 chance with the right of organization eo-operati9n
 the friendly sympathy of all & classes and t cond
 pie in slavery and has it's natural fruits in mil
 rights bv coptroiiipe physical force and violence
 No such servitude of labor can exist in Republican ! community.
 The same contrasts were made as to tht